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  1. Open Library - Wikipedia

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    Open Library. Open Library is an online project intended to create "one web page for every book ever published". Created by Aaron Swartz, [3][4] Brewster Kahle, [5] Alexis Rossi, [6] Anand Chitipothu, [6] and Rebecca Malamud, [6] Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization. It has been funded in part by grants ...

  2. Project Gutenberg - Wikipedia

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    Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." [2] It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. [3] Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of books or individual stories in the ...

  3. Z-Library - Wikipedia

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    By country or region. Comparisons. v. t. e. Z-Library (abbreviated as z-lib, formerly BookFinder) is a shadow library project for file-sharing access to scholarly journal articles, academic texts and general-interest books. It began as a mirror of Library Genesis, but has expanded dramatically. [6][7]

  4. International Children's Digital Library - Wikipedia

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    International Children's Digital Library. The International Children's Digital Library Foundation (ICDL) is a free online library of digitized children's books in 59 languages from many countries. It is housed by the International Children's Digital Library Foundation and was originally developed at the University of Maryland, College Park.

  5. World Digital Library - Wikipedia

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    The World Digital Library (WDL) is an international digital library operated by UNESCO and the United States Library of Congress.. The WDL has stated that its mission is to promote international and intercultural understanding, expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the Internet, provide resources for educators, scholars, and general audiences, and to build capacity in partner ...

  6. Google Books - Wikipedia

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    Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) [1] is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database. [2]

  7. Little Free Library - Wikipedia

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    Little Free Library in a Tokyo Metro station. The first Little Free Library was built in 2009 by the late Todd Bol in Hudson, Wisconsin. [9] Bol mounted a wooden container, designed to look like a one-room schoolhouse, on a post on his lawn and filled it with books as a tribute to his late mother, a book lover and school teacher who had recently died. [10]

  8. Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library - Wikipedia

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    Looking west across West 20th St at Heiskell Library for the Blind on a cloudy morning. The Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library, also known as the Heiskell Library and formerly as the Andrew Heiskell Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped and the New York Free Circulating Library for the Blind is a branch of New York Public Library (NYPL) on West 20th Street in the ...